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James K. Bissette

James K. Bissette

Dec 28, 2011

James Kay Bissette, 67, of Rexburg, died December 28, 2011, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls of natural causes. He was born October 25, 1944, in Rexburg to James Rudolph and Wanda Marie Jensen Bissette. After high school, he served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. When he returned from the war, he met and...

William Cragun

William Cragun

Dec 27, 2011

William Arthur Cragun, Jr. was born August 1,1944 in Ogden, Utah to Mamie Elvira Miller and William Arthur Cragun. Bill graduated from Ben Lomond High School after which he joined the Ogden Weber County Fire Department. He had a large hand in forming the emergency medical services into the Ogden Weber County Area at the fire district. He drove the...

Warren C. Porter

Warren C. Porter

Dec 22, 2011

Warren Child Porter, 91, of Rexburg, died December 22, 2011, at The Homestead Assisted Living Center in Rexburg. He was born March 15, 1920, to Arthur Porter, Jr. and Nell Child Porter, the eighth child in a family of eleven children. He grew up in Rexburg, graduated from Madison High School in 1938, and later Ricks College with a two-year...

John Howard Allen

John Howard Allen

Dec 22, 2011

John Howard Allen passed away December 22, 2011, at his home surrounded by family and friends. He was born June 25, 1932, in Rexburg, Idaho, to Howard and Ethel Buckland Allen. John graduated from Madison High School in Rexburg, ID in 1950, and then attended the University of Idaho in Moscow. In 1952, he entered the U.S. Army and service...

Sharon Diane Daniels

Sharon Diane Daniels

Dec 20, 2011

Sharon Diane Daniels passed away in her home in Rexburg on December 20, 2011. She was born in Los Angeles California, January 10, 1941 to Carl and Mae Bagshaw Jesperson. Her family moved to Idaho Falls where she attended school. When she was nineteen she met the love of her life, Frank Daniels and on August 7, 1961 they were...

Ivan Richard Miller

Ivan Richard Miller

Dec 18, 2011

Ivan Richard Miller, 92, of Rexburg, passed away December 18, 2011 at his home of natural causes. He was born November 13, 1919 in Parker, Idaho to Charles Henry and Olive Mary Orgill Miller. He married Helen Davenport on November 8, 1943, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They are the parents of five children. He served his country valiantly,...

Eleanor Sakota

Eleanor Sakota

Dec 15, 2011

Eleanor Sakota Chiyemi "Eleanor" Sakota, 88 of Rexburg, passed away on December 15, 2011 at her home in Rexburg of natural causes. Eleanor was born on June 7, 1923 to Kazuo and Masano Sasai in Seattle, Washington. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, California. Her mother died in 1936 when Eleanor was only 14. As Eleanor was the oldest,...

Phillis Quirl

Phillis Quirl

Dec 12, 2011

Phillis S. Quirl, 85, passed away Monday, December 12, 2011 at Homestead Assisted Living in Rexburg. Phillis was born October 8, 1926 at Moody, Idaho. She was the daughter of Roy and DeLila Curvo Stewart. She grew up on the Moody ranch until she was a junior in high school, when the family bought a home and moved to Teton....

Darrell Andrew Henderson

Darrell Andrew Henderson

Dec 11, 2011

Darrell Andrew Henderson, 77, of Rexburg, passed away peacefully, December 11, 2011, at Madison Memorial Hospital after a long battle following an accident in 2008. He was born October 16, 1934 in Salt Lake City to Glen and Ruth Henderson. He graduated from Madison High School, Ricks College and College of Southern Utah. He also attended graduate school at University...

Kim Black

Kim Black

Dec 11, 2011

Darvil Kim Black, 74, passed away peacefully in his home in Rexburg on December 11, 2011. Kim was born on June 10, 1937, in Richfield, Utah to Alonzo and Hazel McInelly Black. He graduated from Wayne High School, and served an LDS mission to the Gulf States. He was married to his sweetheart, Janita Torgerson in the Manti Temple on...

Millie Brown

Millie Brown

Dec 10, 2011

Mildred Nettie Hertzig Brown, 96, of Rexburg, died Saturday, December 10, 2011, at Homestead Assisted Living of causes incident to age. She was born February 10, 1915 to Alma and Mary Nettie Chandler Hertzig. She attended grade school in Burton and graduated from Madison High School. She married Ralph Shail in 1931. They were the parents of a daughter, Orene....

Maria Castora

Maria Castora

Dec 10, 2011

Our beautiful, kind and loving mother, and friend returned to our Heavenly Father and is now free from the pains of a courageous body. She passed away December 10, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah from complications of surgery. She battled with diabetes, was a breast cancer survivor and last of all, ended her fight with heart disease. Maria "Mary"...

Mitzi Marie Mcculloch

Mitzi Marie Mcculloch

Dec 7, 2011

Mitzi Marie McCulloch, 54, of Henderson NV, passed away the 7th day of December 2011. She was born July 18, 1957 to William and Nona Smith. She graduated from West Yellowstone High School and continued her education at Ricks College where she met Dallas McCulloch. They were married on Sept.10, 1976 and sealed in the Idaho Falls Temple one year...

Anona Ard Hansen

Anona Ard Hansen

Dec 5, 2011

Myrtle Anona Ard Hansen, 82, returned to her Heavenly Father on Monday, December 5, 2011. She passed away at the home of her daughter in Victor, Idaho. She was under the care of Hospice of Eastern Idaho. She was born on March 30, 1929, in Tetonia, Teton, Idaho to Joseph Napoleon Ard and Myrtle Elizabeth Westover. Anona was the 5th...

Dyal Roberts

Dyal Roberts

Dec 5, 2011

Joseph Dyal Roberts, 89 of Sugar City, died Monday, December 5, 2011 at the home of his daughter in Rexburg. He was born April 22,1922 at Sugar City to Horace Ensign and Martha Louise Jensen Roberts. He graduated from Sugar-Salem High School and spent his life in Sugar City except for the time he served in the military. He was...

Afton Barnes Parkinson

Afton Barnes Parkinson

Dec 5, 2011

Afton Gardner Miller Barnes Parkinson, 90 of Rexburg, died Monday, December 5, 2011 at The Homestead Assisted Living Center, in Rexburg, Idaho. She was born Feb. 26, 1921 in Lyman, Idaho the first child of Burton LeRoy Gardner and Reigh McIntier. She was preceded in death by her parents, 3 husbands, a brother, Kent Gardner, a son, Stephen Ray Miller,...

Earl Wilcox

Earl Wilcox

Dec 3, 2011

Earl 'V' Wilcox, 84, of Archer, died December 3, 2011 of natural causes. Earl was born August 29, 1927 to David Oswell Jr. and Nessie Gilbert Wilcox at their family home in Sunnydell, Idaho. He grew up working on the Wilcox family farm. He attended schools in Archer and Rexburg. He was drafted into the Army and served in Ft....

Cynthia Lynn Moon

Cynthia Lynn Moon

Dec 3, 2011

Cynthia Lynn Moon, 50 of Lyman, died Saturday, December 3, 2011 at home. She was born March 29, 1961 in Idaho Falls to Melor Wayne and Margie Louise Burkey Soucie. She married Bradley R. Moon on June 19, 2010 at Woodville, Idaho. She lived at Shelley and Idaho Falls all her life except the last two years. She enjoyed being...

Cynthia Thompson

Cynthia Thompson

Nov 30, 2011

Cynthia Chloe Kent Thompson, 67, of Rexburg, ID, died Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at the Rexburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born June 15, 1944 in Jackson, Wyoming to Raymond and Gladys Kent. She grew up in Kelly, Wyoming, and graduated from Jackson High School, where she participated in cheerleading, drama and choir. She later attended Ricks College in...

Dale Richard Robson

Dale Richard Robson

Nov 30, 2011

Dale Richard Robson, 86, a lifelong resident of Felt, Idaho passed away on Wednesday, November 30 in Ashton, Idaho with his family surrounding him as he left this life. Dale was born to Horace and Winnie Niendorf Robson on July 25, 1925 in the family home at Felt. As a child, he spent many hours with a baseball bat or...

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